7 Nuggets For First Job Seekers 7 Nuggets For First Job Seekers
Priorities

7 Nuggets For First Job Seekers

If you mentor younger men (or women for that matter), you’ll ultimately be in a conversation about career choices. It might be your son or son-in-law, the son of a friend or someone from your…

Have You Lost Your Jesus? (Part I) Have You Lost Your Jesus? (Part I)
Theology

Have You Lost Your Jesus? (Part I)

“Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find him,” says Charles Spurgeon. He goes on to quote an old proverb . . ….

Self-Rejecting People Self-Rejecting People
Theology

Self-Rejecting People

One of my favorite questions for my mentees . . . “If you open your car door and accidentally ‘ding’ someone’s car, what do you say to yourself in the moment?” As long as I…

Fresh Eyes Fresh Eyes
Mentoring

Fresh Eyes

As I’m starting this new year . . . with a new lung and a new lease on life, I’m asking God to give me fresh ‘eyes to see.’ We get so accustomed to the…

Judge Not Judge Not
Walking the Talk

Judge Not

When mentors first connect with their mentees, there’s a natural tendency to jump right into ‘judgment’ mode. From Jim Ryman’s version of Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest . . . “The average Christian…

10 Things I Learned in 2015 10 Things I Learned in 2015
Things I Learned

10 Things I Learned in 2015

I know . . . everyone has moved on to the new year . . . resolutions, diets, budgets . . . all that. But every year, I look back and think through what I…

The Giving Grid, Part 2: Calling Giving The Giving Grid, Part 2: Calling Giving
Walking the Talk

The Giving Grid, Part 2: Calling Giving

Today, we are again talking about giving. In Part 1, we addressed ‘duty giving’ and encouraged you to explore your motives for giving. Today’s post dive into find God’s calling for you as it relates…

The Giving Grid, Part 1: Duty Giving The Giving Grid, Part 1: Duty Giving
Walking the Talk

The Giving Grid, Part 1: Duty Giving

Now that Christmas has past, a lot of folks will be looking at their finances, making last minute end-of-year donations and thinking about 2016. Its made me think a bit about my family’s giving ….

Come! Come!
Theology

Come!

Christmas. It’s the beginning of a new day. A new era. Instead of saying, “Go, perform well by following the law,” (which no one could ever do), Jesus arrives and simply says . . ….